If you like books that screw with your mind and cause you to question everything, then this is the book for you. I always felt just off-balance while reading, never quite able to trust my footing. It was amazing.
Leah Stevens is starting her life over. She was a journalist in Boston, but one story derailed her career. She printed an insinuation that a college professor might have had something to do with a rash of student suicides without the proof to back it up–an insinuation that could get her sued.
She’s fled to a small town where she’s teaching English and rents a house with a woman she briefly lived with in college. Her roommate, Emmy Grey, is a free-spirit, the type of person who throws a dart at a map to figure where she’s going next. Emmy works the night-shift at a hotel, the opposite schedule as Leah, so they often only see each other only in passing.
Then one day Emmy doesn’t come home. Leah gives her a few days, wondering if she’s with her boyfriend, but when the rent comes due, Leah contacts the police. She’s shocked to find out there’s no record of anyone named Emmy Grey ever existing. No one of a similar description worked at the hotel and no one can locate Emmy’s supposed boyfriend. There is no paper trail to follow; Emmy paid cash for everything. The police seem to think Leah may have made Emmy up.
There’s really three intertwining stories happening in this book: there’s the story that got Leah fired about student suicides, there’s Emmy’s disappearance, and there’s an attack on a local woman who looks suspiciously like Leah that results in a fellow teacher being arrested.
I would definetly recommend
Leah Stevens is starting her life over. She was a journalist in Boston, but one story derailed her career. She printed an insinuation that a college professor might have had something to do with a rash of student suicides without the proof to back it up–an insinuation that could get her sued.
She’s fled to a small town where she’s teaching English and rents a house with a woman she briefly lived with in college. Her roommate, Emmy Grey, is a free-spirit, the type of person who throws a dart at a map to figure where she’s going next. Emmy works the night-shift at a hotel, the opposite schedule as Leah, so they often only see each other only in passing.
Then one day Emmy doesn’t come home. Leah gives her a few days, wondering if she’s with her boyfriend, but when the rent comes due, Leah contacts the police. She’s shocked to find out there’s no record of anyone named Emmy Grey ever existing. No one of a similar description worked at the hotel and no one can locate Emmy’s supposed boyfriend. There is no paper trail to follow; Emmy paid cash for everything. The police seem to think Leah may have made Emmy up.
There’s really three intertwining stories happening in this book: there’s the story that got Leah fired about student suicides, there’s Emmy’s disappearance, and there’s an attack on a local woman who looks suspiciously like Leah that results in a fellow teacher being arrested.
I would definetly recommend